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IMPROVEMENT IN EISE-EOOKS.

C. o. CROSBY, OE NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, AssTeNoE To THE Elsnnookv ANDyNEEDLE CCMEANY, vOE SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 59,893, Zat-ed November 20, 1866.

SPECDIFIO AAJIICDIISI'l TIO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, C. O. CROSBY, of New Haven, in the county of NewHaven, and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement inFish-Hooks; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken inconnection with the aoompanying drawings and theletters of referencemarked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same,and whichv said drawings constitute part of this specification, andrepresent in Figure 1 a side view, and

Figure 2, a front-edge view of a ringed hook according to myimprovement.

Figures 3 and 4, the same views of a atted-head hook, and in Figure 5, asection cutting the hook on line :v :v

My invention relates to an improvement for strengthening the hookwithout additional metal, and consiste in iiattening the hook in thebend from below the barb downward; and to enable others skilled in theart to construct my improvement, I will proceed to describe the same asillustrated in the accompanying drawings.

The hook is formed, as to its general shape, in the usual or other knownmanner. As heretofore constructed, the wire is required to be sucientlylarge that the bend may be able to stand the strain whichfnaturallycomes upon it, and the wire used is of an eyen diameter and form;consequently the back of the hook is stronger than is necessary for thestrain that comes upon the bend of the hook, in order that the bendmaybe suiiioiently strong. It is to strengthen the hook in the bend sothat a'smaller size ofv wire may be usedfor a hook of the same strengthof larger wire, as heretofore constructed.` To do this Iiiatten the wirein the bend from the barb downward, and the corresponding distance upthe back of the hook, as denoted in tige. 1 and 2, and in section iig.5. This widens that part of the hook in the direction in which thestrain comes upon'the hook, and proportionatelystrengthens the hook atthatl part, the only strain being downward, and as, vby thus iiattening,the bend at that part is strengthened, consequently the wire used may besmaller than tha-t used for alhook of the same strength as commonlyconstructed.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new anduseful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

Flattening fish-hooks in the bend, substantially as and for the purposedescribed.

C. O. CROSBY,

Witnesses:

JOHN H.. SHUMWAY, A. J. TIBBITS.

